Introduction
Building the concept of explorers and explorations.
Livingstone Mouse by Pamela Duncan Edwards – Tea Party
Encounter by Jane Yolen
Videos of space exploration; discuss the fears, motives and traits of explorers
What makes a Good Explorerfrom Curriculum guide.
Age of Explorationfrom Curriculum guide as an introduction for maps and locations of countries.
Geography
Use map skills to locate places on maps and globes, and the four hemispheres formed by the equator and prim meridian.
(SOL 3.5-VBO 3.5.1-3.5.6)
Use Map Makers Toolkit to review: oceans, continents, equator, prime meridian, hemispheres, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Mali. Introduce Spain, France, England, St. Augustine, San Salvador, Quebec, Jamestown.
You can download SoftChalk 5.0 from the intranet and paste in any webquest and make changes.
Sorting the important information for all of the explorers (link to document)
Geography
Interpret geogrphic information from maps, tables, graphs, and charts.
(SOL 3.6 - VBO 3.6.1-3.6.3)
Literature Links Where Do You Think You Are Going, Christopher Columbus? – Jean Fritz Christopher Columbus – Mervyn Kaufman Cod’s Tale – Mark Kurlansky Meet Christopher Columbus – AKJ American in the Time of Columbus – Heinemann Young Christopher Columbus – Troll Pedro’s Journey – Sundance Jacques Cartier – Virginia Experience Juan Ponce de Léon– Virginia Experience Christopher Columbus– Virginia Experience Christopher Newport– Virginia Experience Explorers Searching for Adventure– Steck Vaughn St. Augustine– Cobblestone Picture Book of Christopher Columbus– David A. Adler Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World – I Asimov If You Were There in 1492– B. Brenner Westward with Columbus– J. Dyson The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria – Dennis B. Fradin Explorers – Dennis B. Fradin Sailing to America, Colonists at Sea – James E. Knight They Sought a New World– W. Kurelek Who Discovered America? Mysteries and Puzzles of the New World – P. Lauber In 1492– Jean Marzollo Christopher Newport– Amy William Boykin Christopher Columbus– Stephen Krensky The Story of Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean – Mary Pope Osborne Columbus: My Journal, 1492-1493 – Peter Roop Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus – Peter Sis Cartier: Finder of the St. Lawrence – Ronald Syme Hot Seat Find the Fiction/Two Truths and a Lie Think Links
Building the concept of explorers and explorations.
Geography
Use map skills to locate places on maps and globes, and the four hemispheres formed by the equator and prim meridian.
(SOL 3.5-VBO 3.5.1-3.5.6)
History
Analyze the discovery of the Americas by Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Cartier, and Newport
(SOL 3.3 - VBO 3.3.1-3.3.6)
Geography
Interpret geogrphic information from maps, tables, graphs, and charts.
(SOL 3.6 - VBO 3.6.1-3.6.3)
Literature Links
Where Do You Think You Are Going, Christopher Columbus? – Jean Fritz
Christopher Columbus – Mervyn Kaufman
Cod’s Tale – Mark Kurlansky
Meet Christopher Columbus – AKJ
American in the Time of Columbus – Heinemann
Young Christopher Columbus – Troll
Pedro’s Journey – Sundance
Jacques Cartier – Virginia Experience
Juan Ponce de Léon – Virginia Experience
Christopher Columbus – Virginia Experience
Christopher Newport – Virginia Experience
Explorers Searching for Adventure – Steck Vaughn
St. Augustine – Cobblestone
Picture Book of Christopher Columbus – David A. Adler
Christopher Columbus: Navigator to the New World – I Asimov
If You Were There in 1492 – B. Brenner
Westward with Columbus – J. Dyson
The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria – Dennis B. Fradin
Explorers – Dennis B. Fradin
Sailing to America, Colonists at Sea – James E. Knight
They Sought a New World – W. Kurelek
Who Discovered America? Mysteries and Puzzles of the New World – P. Lauber
In 1492 – Jean Marzollo
Christopher Newport – Amy William Boykin
Christopher Columbus – Stephen Krensky
The Story of Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean – Mary Pope Osborne
Columbus: My Journal, 1492-1493 – Peter Roop
Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus – Peter Sis
Cartier: Finder of the St. Lawrence – Ronald Syme
Hot Seat
Find the Fiction/Two Truths and a Lie
Think Links